Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-17
NUMBER 80.

ist. enforce them; if they are bad laws.
repeal them.
But. you would urge, the state laws
forbid these election frauds, and the
state courts would punish those crimes.
My dear, sir. these laws have been up
on the statute books of Missouri for
many years; can you tell me single
instance in your memory where pun
ishment has followed their infraction9
! Primary elections are authorized by
/ law in ST Louis, and punishment pre-
scribed for their inffaetion, and iG is
I notorious that certain eIiques and rings
| babitUalIy disregard those prohibitions,
| being too powerful for the law. The
! present Democratic mayor of st. Louis
was afraid to have the ballots counted
/ and the Supreme Court kindly told
/ him not to be scared, they should not
/ be counted Tell me how many keep
ers of gambling aells from st. Louis
/ are in the Penitentiary? Not one.
/ Still you could buck the tiger" almost
| whenever and wherever you want to-.
| How many bribe-gi vers and brihe-tak-
| ersa Not one. Our Supreme Court
the other day told Warren F. MeChes-
nev To do it again Was that cold
bloo,ied murderer, kring, ever hung"
! His father had money.
| Point cut to me one man, who had
money, who in the last six years was
ever punished by verdict or Judgment
in any court in St. Louis, which ver-
diet and Judgment was carried into ef-
| feet, and I behave the man can be
found who will give you new haf.
| In asking that the state courts in st.
| Louis take cogniZance Of these cases to
| the exclusion OF the Federal Courts, do
you not forget that a great portion Of
city is as rotten as SodGm, and that
the officials of Gomorrah were angels
beside hers? Don't you know that the
bosses and boodlers and the ringsters
and men of ''infooence" could and
and would pack iuries to aequit them
selves and henchmen2 Do you forget
that the clerk OF the very court in
whirh these cases would be tried is one
of tie Indicted personse
It is wrong, sir, as we'll as impolite,
for Democrats and Democratic organs
to seek to protect these seoundrels by
raising the cry of Republican persecu-
tion.
Liberty is dependent upon the honest
. | Of tho T2r1EIi.p i'll In /
Let box: and too much dishonesty and
corruption has crept into and been fos-
tered among cur electors, already, for
! the good of the country; such has
made the United States Congress a
mixed club of rich rascals and hungry
sharpers, our State Supreme Courts,
plant toad aters; state officials, black
mailers, and legislatures, TIA tcSls OF
monopolists.
And honest men ought to hail with
a cheer any lawful effort made to check
! this growing evil. God knows we need
make many and N ghty efforts before
the evil will abate, and rascality in
, high places be purged and rebuked.
But, it may be said, why don't theF'eti-
4 eral Grand Jury indict some Repuhli-
f cans for frauds? For the simple reason
that in this case the Democratic ras-
a Gals had the odds on their Republican
, brethren. The recorder OF votes who
had charge of the registration books
both before and after the election, the
y canvasser of votes, the majority o.
, Judges and clerks Of election, wert
= Democrats. The bosses and the rings
: sent forth their fat that they wanted
n more votes, and they got them. A
n one end of the line, names were forget
: and legal names struck off, at the 9th
Il er the strikers and peelers" voted fo
q dead men,
"a Mr. Editor, our party was not brough
# into being and does not exist for th
), purpose of affording protection II
scounareIs, aud if it has come to this
q the sooner it passes away the bette
y for the world It is wrong to throw
f. the party degds over such conduct
= We have all we can carry now. What
la with our eighteen inch collar, sixt
"a inch waisthand mugwump administers
o. ton, pan-eIectric departmen ut of justice
T. lobbying chairman and members c
n the State Central Committee, raiiroa
"a attorney, executive committeeman an
& matchmaking state officers, [ don't sc
r. that we should banker after NOR
ia weight to carry in the race of Noyen
in Der, 1883.
10 With more we might "be under
in cloud and carry weight" Let tnes
II little scoundrels in St. Louis 60 TO To
% pen. or break rock, but don't for tht
,v reason make the Old eagle squall an
1r shake her wings.
- Mr.. Editor, [ was born Denocra
It, have always been Democrat, an
If. will always believe IN the principles
Democracy, as laid down by the Fat
IT ers, and am your personal friend; an
ne it is on account of these things spea
ge so freely and have right so 70 spea
oe Yours, &c. x.